4,000 pigs dead in Mower County barn fire
Four thousand pigs are dead after a barn fire in Mower County late Wednesday. According to the Brownsdale Volunteer Fire ...
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Empty Barns: Several Factors Shrink U.S. Swine Herd and Slow Expansion
A lot of empty barns in the industry because of disease pressure.” He says he has ‘put the brakes’ on expansion. “The hog slaughters are reduced 5 to 6 percent because we’ve had such ...
Hog Wild announces lineup for 11th Annual Fourth on the Farm
QUAKERTOWN — Hog Wild Productions and Morgan Creek Farms announced the lineup for the 11th Annual Fourth on the Farm running ...
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With little oversight, NC poultry farms raise 1 billion birds a year. Who pays the cost?
But no one has applied brakes to the poultry industry. Like the big hog farms, poultry farms confine thousands of animals inside huge barns. Usually owned by corporations, the birds stay long ...
Barn fire kills 4,000 pigs in southern Minnesota
BROWNSDALE, Minn. (Valley News Live) - A devastating barn fire in southern Minnesota took the life of nearly 4,000 pigs that were trapped inside.
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4,000 pigs lost in late Wednesday barn fire near Brownsdale
Once at the scene, firefighters observed a 102-foot by 148-foot hog barn fully engulfed in flames. "The barn and its contents ...
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Hills, Luverne fire departments respond to hog barn fire in Clinton Township
Volunteer firefighters from Hills and Luverne enter the empty hog production facility at 1153 41st St. near Steen Wednesday, Feb. 5, to extinguish the fire that was contained in the attic. Photo ...
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Brownsdale barn fire kills 4,000 pigs in nation’s worst fire since 2021
BROWNSDALE, Minn. (KTTC) – A devastating barn fire in Brownsdale took the life of nearly 4,000 pigs in what ended as the nation’s worst barn fire since 2021, according to the Animal Welfare Institute.